BRITISH MINERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 December 1940, Page 7

BRITISH MINERS

MESSAGE OF CONFIDENCE.

[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.]

RUGBY, December 29. A striking, eloquent New Year’s

message to mine-workers in Europe, in which the light of the miner’s lamp and fearless, untiring work of miners’ rescue parties are evoked as pledges of hope for those who are oppressed under Nazi tyranny, comes from the miners on the Durham coalfields, “on behalf of ’ every miner home in Britain.” To fellow-workers on the Continent they say: “Whatever toll be paid, whatever sacrifice involved, we face it cheerfully in a realisation that' there can be no hope for mankind so ■long as Nazis exist. The barbarian gangsters who enslave you will never succeed against a people whose long history has been -one of struggle, endurance and triumph in a long travel to liberty and freedom. To-day, when to you the future may seem as dark as night, we assure you that the gleam that lightens our path • and gives us faith shall give you hope and confidence to overthrow despotism and tyranny.”